FClimDex

http://etccdi.pacificclimate.org/software.shtml

Plots NetCDF4 climate data on animated map. Processes climate text files with Python calling Fortran FClimDex on all files in a directory.

Install

Prereqs

Python >= 3.6

apt install gfortran

Build

python -m pip install -e .

Usage

Process each text *.dat file in directory data/ into 33 output files, in a unique directory for each input file:

python RunFClimdex.py data/

Reads the text data files from the Fortran program FClimdex (as part of RunFClimdex.py) and converts them to a single NetCDF4 file (3-D: time, lat, lon):

python index2nc.py data/ out.nc

Takes NetCDF4 input files and plots a movie of precipitation from them, overlaid on a colorful map:

python PlotPrecip.py

Notes

If you get error

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: './FClimDex'

then as usual

chmod +x FClimDex